Thinking back on Polsci's new blog today, I really felt insulted, especially considering I was feeling the some pre determined biases and viewing things in my own demented way.
The idea of having to put up with lines of total [rectums] insulting you for having an interest or a hobby is crap. My ideas should be respected right? Can I not be an individual? I found myself thinking "Where do these insults come from?" or on the other hand, "Who do these insults come from?" (Now here's the moment where I could easily turn this into a hatred rant, get flagged for flamming or some other subjective internet lingo that could be shot at me from any number of mods who disagree, or I could go the more intelligent way with this and stay neutral and present my point.)
I find myself as a person to be inbetween interests, hobbies, friends, and, well...uh... clicks. I am a nerd at heart, who plays sports like a jock would but I also have a lot of other interests going in other directions, but lets stay on topic here, shall we. More and more recently, in the last couple of years at more than ever before, I noticed how silly sports actually are. Sure they do some good things, which I have tried to keep for myself, these things, to name a few, are: staying in physical shape, A.K.A. being healthy; forming relationship with other people; building strong foundations of leadership, courage, will power, and many other things; and, most importantly, having some fun. But to really think about sports in another way I, and possibly we if I can present myself well enough, like to see the activity of watching athletic events is really, just sad.
Billions, and that may not even be a hyperbole, are spent each year to watch grown men play games. These people who are doing this get paid more than school teachers, is this really what people should be showing their kids, to look up to the athlete above an education!? Can you really blame this though, because the people found most fascinated, and actually quite obsessed, more likely most cases it is obsession, are actually the adults. Should we really care that much about some guy running a fabulous three feet that we form rivalries and hatred and wager money? What type of people are we as a society?
Instead of going and watching people play, or forming an imaginary team to play for me, I choose to play video games and keep a harmony. I find it almost, at least from my point of view, that I am one of the few who stands above immaturity, but wait there just a second, why am I being called immature because I don't obsess over sports? Being that my bias is stated I can, although it won't be nearly as strongly believed as before, is that I have nothing against people who like sports, rather the fact that it is taken to far, just like it is right to talk about some one who can't get enough of WoW.
Like I said earlier though, what is the real difference between a "nerd" and a "jock"? The only difference I can find is a difference in how they wish to entertain themselves, but who is more likely to call you immature for playing your video games, or to exclude you for playing your D&D, or trading your Magic: The Gathering cards, it isn't anyone else who has a similar interest, it tends to be the other immaturity, the person who can obsess with how some guy in a jersey can throw a football. Or should we rather call an immaturity an obsession, or in our case, a hobby.
*I did not mean to offend anyone when I wrote this, I was just stating my mind on the matter. If I did insult anyone I will apologize here and now. I could have taken this topic much further but I thought my point well enough presented and I was satisfied*
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